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Object photograph·Csn3697·1927–1931

Pottery Red Figured Ware and Special Wares (F.159)

Jug shaped as a female head with a strap handle and trefoil mouth, shown on a mounted card
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3697. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A jug in the form of a female head with a glossy dark surface and white flecks of surface loss. A beaded band runs across the forehead, a strap handle rises behind the head to a trefoil mouth, and a number label sits on the neck. Shown on a pale background, the print is mounted on a card with a border and handwriting along the bottom edge.

Other scans of this record (3)

  • Small round painted pottery vessel with a flat handle arching over its mouth, shown against a light background
  • Round-bodied painted pottery vessel with a flat collar rim and two small handles, photographed on a plain background
  • Four painted pottery vessels in a row on a cloth, including a juglet with a modelled head and a broken two-handled cup
Description, scan 2
A squat, globular vessel with a short neck and a broad flat handle rising above the mouth. The body is painted with dark and light curved bands, a dotted lattice panel and sweeping motifs, and the surface is worn in places. It is photographed alone on a pale background and the print sits on a grey card mount.
Description, scan 3
A round-bodied vessel with a wide flat collar at the top and two small handles on the neck. The body is painted with dark horizontal bands and rows of rounded, flower-like motifs, with a large dark animal-like figure across the middle. The vessel stands on a plain light surface against a pale backdrop, shown in a single view on a card mount with a border.
Description, scan 4
Four vessels stand in a row on a pale cloth, with a striped scale bar at the left edge. From left: a round two-handled jar with a flat collar and dark banded decoration; a smaller round vessel with a flat collar and a handle, painted with curving bands; a juglet whose neck is modelled as a human head in a headdress, with a handle rising behind; and a broken shallow two-handled cup with a human figure painted in the centre of its interior.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pottery Red Figured Ware. Pottery Special Wares. Cyprus Museum. F.159.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Red Figured Ware. Cyprus Museum.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen, Cyprus Museum.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Pottery Special Wares. Cyprus Museum. F.159.